Prominent Pathologist Richard Scolyer reveals heart updating of cancer months after experimental immunotherapy

The well -known expert of Melanoma and former Australian Professor of the Year Richard Scolyer has shared a heartbroken update in his battle with brain cancer – revealing that the disease is progressing again.

Professor Scrio, 58, was diagnosed with aggressive and incurable glioblastoma in 2023 and was initially given only eight months to live.

However, after undergoing experimental immunotherapy based on melanoma research, his cancer remained in the breast for 18 months.

In a social media post on Monday, Professor Scolyer confirmed a recent MRI scan had shown further tumor progress on the left side of his brain.

“While this may not be the best direction to go with my changes, surprisingly (for me), I still see to continue living, love and have fun when possible,” he wrote on social media.

“I feel like there are all people in my team and they make me happy and proud.”

The prominent cancer researcher, jointly called Australian of the Year in 2024 together with the co-director of the Institute of Melanoma, Professor Georgina Long, has remained extremely sincere and optimistic throughout his treatment.

In February, Professor SCOLYER announced that the cancer had returned, making it under surgery in March to remove the tumor as much as possible.

He later explained that while the procedure successfully removed a significant portion of the mass, the “small tentacles” remained and would require additional treatment to “move” the remaining cancer cells.

“Depending on what scanning shows … this will help in choosing which are the future forms of therapy that I may have to see where we should go from here,” he said at the time.

He also accepted the emotional and physical number of constant treatment, admitting that he had felt “slightly up and down” because of the side effects, though he continued to feed the time spent with his wife Katie and their children.

“Sometimes I’m happy to have fun, but some of the therapies have known me a little, so I can’t do some of the things I want to do,” he said.

“I am still spending a fun at home with my children, they have been very kind, as well as my beautiful wife Katie has, who used her extraordinary intellect to help me talk to different doctors about the options available.”

Professor Scolyer said he expects to undergo another operation and remains hope for future treatments.

“Crossing fingers this operation are not so bad and we can move forward with the other form of therapy and hope to push things faster to try and open things for many, many patients who have received glioblastoma,” he said.